I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.
Miyavi
Usually I go to the studio to write lyrics and compose music. I try to be a dad as much as possible at home.
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And... →
Moby
Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing... →
When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of... →
One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.
I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.
A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic... →
Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.
For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose... →